Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi Park (4 October 1993-) is a North Korean human rights activist who escaped for China in 2007 and moved to South Korea in 2009, becoming an anti-human trafficking and human rights activist.

Biography
Yeonmi Park was born on 4 October 1993 in Hyesan, Ryanggang Province, North Korea. Her family was educated and politically-connected, but when North Korea went into economic collapse following the downfall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, her family turned to the black market as a business. Her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling, and as a result Park and her mother fled to China. Her mother was captured by human smugglers there before escaping to Mongolia; in 2009, Yeonmi and her mother headed to South Korea with the help of some Christian missionaries, and they reunited with her sister Eunmi there. In 2014, she gave a famous speech at the One Young World summit in Dublin, Ireland about the abuses of the North Korean government, and she wrote a memoir about her experiences.